>because 4GB of RAM is insufficient for a C++ compiler in current year

Are you building the app as a x64 app on 4GB?
Just use x86.

You can also place ram usage limits on your apps
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3774858/artificially-limit-c-c-memory-usage

Are you using default settings or the latest release build of C++ with all the tact on garbage?

>looking at png

That's a shit ton of libraries

>The team that set out to build a better C++ ended up producing Rust.

It's on the todo list try it out.

>Open top, hit 'M' to sort by memory usage.

Good thing you didn't see how cancerous VB.net was.